Thursday had a few more things to say about plans for their upcoming full length and follow up to their Island debut War All the Time.

The band plans to begin recording this October, and frontman Geoff Rickly recently revealed his intentions to enlist the aid of My Chemical Romance vocalist Gerard Way. Rickley said:

I sort of helped My Chem start their whole thing up, and now that they're huge, I don't want to exploit that, He's a friend of mine, and if it ended up seeming exploitative -- like he did something with us and the label wanted to use it as a single -- it would be too weird.

Rickley produced the band's 2002 Eyeball debut, I Brought You My Bullets… and continues to work as a producer, having completed the recent Hello Sailor by the Blackout Pact for his own Astromagnetics label.

Geoff is also promising a record with less hopelessness than War, an is aiming for more "grandness" and less of the claustrophobia that informed War. Having reacquainted himself with Full Collapse, he hopes to impart some of the "hope" on that record.

Rickley is also hoping to pursue more collaborations with friends like Daryl Palumbo, saying that:

We're going to involve other bands in a way that's never been done before -- there'll be some special guests, but it's not going to be in the way that guests usually appear, coming in and singing a few lines. It's going to be more like when artists collaborate on something."

The band will be working on the as-yet untitled record with producer Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios in Fredonia, New York.